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The College News
VOL. XXII, No. 14
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1936
Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS. 193*
PRICE 10 CHNT�i
Mr. Alwyne Presents
Pianoforte Recital
Brahms F Minor Sonata Played
With Gracious Delicacy in
Varied Program
COMMENTS INTERESTING
(Especially contributed by Elizabeth
Jones, graduate student.)
-. Goodhart, February 19.�The first
three of the four groups included in
Mr. Alwyne's pianoforte recital were
prefaced by welcome explanatory com-
ments from the interpreter. Before
his first group, which began with the
C Minor Variations of Beethoven, Mr.
Alwyne recalled a few facts regard-
ing the variation form. There are
two large musical forms which may
be styled "variations," the first com-
monly called "theme and variations,"
the second of the "passacaglia" type.
The Beethoven selection was of the
first type, although a propos of the
theme, it was a little surprising
that this should be so, for this theme
is a single sequence of ascending
chords plus a cadence, whereas the
usual theme is a small binary or tern-
ary form, a songlike structure. Mr.
Alwyne called attention to the fact
that the ground figure of the great
passacaglia of the Fourth Symphony
of Brahms is nearly identical with
this Beethoven theme, except that it
is in a different key (E minor). The
variation form has not the same sort
of intrinsic unity as, for example, the
sonata-allegro, but there was no lack
of coherence of development in the
selection of the evening. The short
sections follow one another with very
pleasing contrasting effects, carried
out _ in the harmonic idiom known and
loved as characteristic of all the large
Beethoven pianoforte works.
The Bagatelle, Op. S3, showed
Beethoven in the mood of his most
facile writing, and contained some
very charming, and charmingly exe-
cuted effects. The Ecossaisen proved,
as Mr. Alwyne had said, to be a
"slightly sophisticated" version of the
supposedly Celtic original.
Then followed the Sonata in F
Minor, of Brahms, a work we do not
hear often enough, partly because of
the demands it makes on the skill of
the performer. The difficulty of per-
formance must be evident to all in the
brilliant passages of rapid, wide leaps
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Poussin, Lorraine Lecturer Coming Dean States College
Dr. Walter Friedlander will talk onI t �
The Landscape Painting of Nicholas1, Scholarships Policy
Poussin and Claude Lorraine, Their\ �______*
Drawings and Pictures, in the Dean-! , __ . j m � \j ��
ery, March 1 at 6 o'clock. Dr. Fried- !�A,d Used fof Needy Students
lander, who until 1936 was at Frei-' Who Promise Finest Work
burg, Germany, is Visiting Professor i for College
of Fine Arts at New York University; ---------
and at the University of Pennsylvania. FUNDS ARE LIMITED
He is one of the foremost connoisseursj ______
of the painting and drawing of jhoj (This statement has been revised
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in j fry Mrs. Manning because one or two
France and the Netherlands, and is important points with regard to
the author of many works on Claude scholarships were omitted in Chapel.)
Lorraine and Nicholas Poussin. Goodhart, February 20.-"It is
more necessary than usual at the
Showing of Movie Films present' time to explain the college
A-...,., ��,4 U� <Z*,tA�~K- P�licy with regard to scholarships,"
Arranged by Students |said Mrs Manning in Chapel( 1<be_
_. TT , . ! cause we are going through a period
The Undergraduate Association is Lf adju8tment wher misunderstand.
planning a series of motion-picture \ ings and criticism on the part of
exhibitions during the spr.ng which, students and parents a,.e more com.
will be open to all students without ;mon than .g usua)]y the cage The
charge The first of these programs \ ,agt five yearg haye been yeftrg of
takes place on Wednesday, February crisis for scholarship committees, and
College Calendar
Wednesday^ February 26. �
Museum of Modern Art films
will be shown. Goodhart, 8 p. m.
Thursday, February 27.�Vo-
cational Tea. Common Room,
4.30 p. m.
Friday, February 28.�French
play, Son Marx, presented by
the French Players of New
York. Goodhart, 8.20 p. m. A
dance will follow the perform-
ance. Gymnasium, 10 p._ m.�2
a. m.
Sunday, March 1.�Dr. Walter
Friedlander will speak on The
Landscape Painting of Poussin
a nil Lorraine. Deanery, 6 p. m.
Richards Disproves .
Doctrines of Usage
Words in Ordinary Discourse
Not Distinct as in Writing
But Fluid
LECTURE 3RD OF SERIES
American Student Union
Branch Started Here
25, at 8 p. m. Students are reminded
that May Day rehearsals and folk
the emergency policy worked out is
not one which could be continued in-
(Editor's Note. This is the second
part of the article on college finances
which was begun in the last issue of
the News.)
Spring time is budget time at Bryn
Mawr. Computed on a basis of past
income and expenditures with changes
as the times indicate, an estimate of
the expected income from endowment,
tuition fees, rentals and halls of
residence is carefully estimated by
the Treasurer and Comptroller. This
with a rough budget of expected ex-
penses is worked over by Miss Park,
who then sections off the budget to
each of the committees of the Board
of Directors (Executive, Buildings
and Grounds, etc.), who are respon-
sible for the many branches of the
college. When these have been re-
turned and any large changes care-
fully investigated and checked, the
entire budget is set before the Fi-
nance Committee of the Board of
Directors. In cases of conflicting
demands on an overworked budget,
it is they who must recommend
which need takes precedence for final
adoption by the Directors.
In all cases the cautWus path is
followed of drawing up the budget
on the minimum expected income and
the maximum expected expenditures,
because once lost a deficit is irre-
trievable. That this long and care-
ful work is worth the trouble can be
seen from a comparison of estimated
inqeme and actual income. In one
year the actual income exceeded the
net income by a large margin of
dancing may not be cut in order to dennitely. It was absolutely neces-
attend the film showings. If th.s hap-j sary to enab,e students a,,.ead in
pens, it will be necessary to grve up;coUege and makjng definJte contribu.
the other programs which are planned. tions to the |jfe of the communit to
The movies are individually quite |finish their co�ege courses The
short and take about half an hour|co�eRe wouId have guffered ag much
apiece, so that students may come and | as they if the sudden diminuti()n
go quite easily if they are quiet. Pco-lwhich so many people suffered in
pie who have rehearsals in the early family income had resu]ted ^ ^
part of the evening are welcome to J withdrawing from college. What I
come in late. The whole program |want to 0UtHne here> howeverf is the
will be over by 10.30 p. m. jmor<J norma, po,jcy whjch Qur scho|
The movies come to Bryn Mawrjarship committees pursue in the at-
through the cooperation of the Mu-;tempt to use the fundg at their dis
seum of Modern Art, which has re- \p08al for the benefit of the coUege ag
cently founded a film library and is, a wnole
collecting samples of motion-picture j ..These funds come> some of them
art from 1894 to the present. (Thcjfrom the regu,ar co�ege budget) some
Library was established for the pur- of them from specia, ,egacjes or g.ft
pose of collecting and preserving out-!the income of which is at the dis-
standing motion pictures of all types j posa, of president Park or of one
and of mak.ng them available to col-jor another of the scholarship corn-
leges and museums, thus providing for mittees. Some of them are raised
the first time a considered study of by aiumnae in different parts of the
the film as art.) These films are ar-' untry from year to year Presi.
ranged in groups each dealing withjdent Park and the Dil.ecturS have
some particular kind of subject. Thisj joyfu,]y accepted gifts made to the
week's program is concerned with co�cge foF the assistance of necdy
comedies. j students, whatever wishes have been
The Haverford College Film So- j expressed by the donors as to the
cfety is helping with the planning of; way in which the cnoice of those
the series of five programs which is . tudents should be made; and when
contemplated and is sharing part of|r speak of a scholarship policy for
the expenses. Students from Haver- |the coUeRe j want jt clea,.]y under.
ford are invited to come to see the stood that in the past we have been
movies. The program consists ofonly too flighted to extend, adjust,
films covering the period from 1900. amend that policy so as to aid more
t0 1925- i students who need the help when-
ever the funds were available.
"The question which presents it-
ilf in any normal year, however, is
how we can use the funds which arc
at our disposal to the best possible
advantage. I believe that every
i scholarship committee in the coun-
1 try confronted with this problem
i would give approximately the same
'answer. All of us would like to find
| young women (or young men, as the
j case may be) of high intellectual
calibre, great industry, purpose al-
| ready fixed to make use of a college
I education as a preparation for a fu-
. ture career, who have a real contri-
bution to make to the life of the
college by their work in undergradu-
ate organizations and their leader-
Common Room, February 20.�At a
short meeting held for the purpose of
temporary organization, a local chap-
ter of the American Student Union
was started. About thirty students
and two members of the faculty met
together to choose officers and make
plans for the future. Naomi Coplin,
'38, was elected temporary chairman
of the group, and Mary Riesinan, '39,
was chosen secretary. Twenty-one of
those present signed up as desiring to
join the Union. Dr. Weiss and Dr.
Miller were among those who attend-
ed the first meeting. Dr. Kingsbury
and Dr. Fairchild also expressed an
interest in the Union. Another meet-
ing will be held this Thursday which
will consider the program of the Union
and the particular plans for action
by the Bryn Mawr group.
safety of over 15 per cent. In com-
paring estimated and actual expen-
ditures, it often occurred that in a
variable item the actual expenditures
were within a few dollars and even
a few cents of the budget appropria-
tion. This again testifies to the fact
that Bryn Mawr is a very good
housekeeper, who keeps carefully
within the bounds of her limited
income.
Primary Economies
The peak of the depression was not
reached until the academic year'1931-
1932. At that time the college faced
a deficit as did nearly every other
business in the United States. Econo-
mies were in order, and wisely the
college maintained salaries and wages
at the usual rate as long as possible.
The first drastic reduction in ex-
penses was the cessation of exten-
sion and improvements on the real
estate properties. The maintenance
crew was reduced to the minimum
number necessary to conserve the
campus, but improvements were de-
ferred. The grass, for instance,
was allowed to grow for longer in-
tervals between cuttings to save on
labor wages. But this was not suf-
ficient, because the number of stu-
dents receiving financial aid jumped
from one in every seven students to
one in every three students, and the
total number of undergraduates drop-
ped 5 per cent As a last resort for
1932-1933 it was necessary to recom-
mend a small cut in salaries, so that
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Hot Box Fires Delay Weekenders
(Contributed in News Tryouts)
Even the presence of a warden did
not prevent the lateness Sunday eve-
ning of nineteen Bryn Mawr passen-
gers on the popular 8 o'clock train from
New York. The reason for the delay
was at first obscured by vague reports
from the conductors. Not until the
passengers from the two actively
troubled cars trooped into the rest of
the coaches was it discovered that the
commotion was caused by two "hot
boxes" which occasioned more smoke
and excitement than danger.
No Bryn Mawrter was directly dis-
comfited by the accident. Several
limping starts made the possibility of
getting to college on time seem hope-
ful to some, who did not bother to
telegraph. On the other hand,, not
only did several apprehensive persons
scurry to the nearest telegraph ser-
vice, but some even wrote reminders
of their excuse in the s;Knin>j-out
books.
Goodhart Hall, February 24.�In
the third of his series of lectures on
the interpretation of prose, Mr. I. A.
Richards, having in his last lecture
come to a definition <o( context and
the philosophical problems connected
with it, stated that he would by ap-
plication of this definition to specific
sentences turn the philosophical prob-
lems to literary ones and attempt to
show the conflict between the doc-
trine of usage and the inter-inani-
mation o"f words.
Context is granted to be a recur-
rent group of events, bound together
by the causal law, which states that
under gfrren conditions, of two events,
if one, the cause, happens, the other,
the effect, will also happen. By a spe-
cial abridgment of context, a word be-
comes a substitute for the non-re-
curring parts of the context. In
other words, it acts in behalf of the
missinK part and what it means is
what would complete the meaning.
Literary context is the influence of
words on one another in a passage.
The problems that arise are: what
do words in a sentence mean and
how do they depend on other words?
It will be readily admitted that
only the words of highly technicalized
science are wholly independent and
always the same in meaning no mat-
ter how they stand in a sentence.
The words of conversational, more
fluid discourse are, on the other
hand, so fluctuating in meaning that
not only are they inconstant, but of-
ten the whole sentence in which co-
operative meanings hang together
may itself be unstable in meaning.
This liability to shift in meaning
applies to all the language functions
of words as well as to their sense,
that is, to one's feeling about what
'�ne talks or writes about and wishes
to convey, to the confidence that a
remark is sound, and to the effect
one desires to create. The combina-
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Horn-Dance to be Given
Here for First Time
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Rehearsal Conflicts
President Park and the May
Day Director have made the fol-
lowing arrangement with the
Faculty whereby the name of
any student who says she has to
leave early for a rehearsal or
that she is- not able to attend
class or laboratory on account
of a rehearsal shall be reported
to the Dean of the College, who
will then notify the May Day
Director at once, so that any
misunderstand may be cleared
up. Rehearsals are being
planned at hours which do not
interfere with the routine of the
College. Any student who finds
that there is a conflict between
a class or a laboratory And a re-
hearsal for which she is posted
should immediately report the
conflict to the Director of May
Day. i,.fr *
Meeting of Philosophy Club
Tlie newly organized student Phi-
losophy Club has announced its first
meeting for Tuesday, March 4. The
place where the meeting will be held
will be announced later. At a pre-
liminary meeting three students were
elected to a managing committee:
Marjorie Goldwasser, '36; Elizabeth
Lyle, '37, and Leigh Stenhardt,
'37. The club is intended to arouse
interest among the students in
the discussion of philosophical prob-
lems and to interest those taking re-
quired philosophy in larger aspects of
the course.
Members of the faculty will be in-
vited to the first meeting, at which the
paper written by Augusta Arnold, '38,
on Time in Aristotle will be read. All
who are- interested are invited and it
is suggested that reading the short
passages on Time and Space in Ari-
stotle's Metaphysics will be of assist-
ance for the discussion which will fol-
low the reading of the paper. First-
year students in particular are urged
to come. -
Wrong Multiplication
In the article on finances of
the college appearing in the last
issue of the News, an error was
made in computing the approxi-
mate value of the land on which
the college stands. The figure
should read $1,420,000 instead
of $142,000.
The Abbots Bromley Horn-Dance,
to be given at Bryn Mawr for the first
time this year, has a troupe of ten
performers: six dancers, a fool, Maid
Marian (sometimes referred to as a
man-woman, which is a man dressed
as a woman, but looking like a man
dressed as a woman and not like a
woman�,a difficult job for the cos-
turner), n hobby-horse (looking like
a man dressed as a hobby-horse), a
boy with bow and arrow. There are
also a musician with an accordian and
a boy with a triangle.
Each dancer carries reindeer horns
set in a wooden counterfeit skull with
a pole eighteen inches long by which
to hold it. The first three dancers
carry white or cream horns, while the
last three carry blue ones. Each
dancer bears the head in front of him,
holding the handle with his left hand
and the horns with his right. The fool
carries a stick and bladder. The
horse is painted wood, with a heavy
mane.
The dance is an extremely ancient
one, probably having its origin in some
religious festival. The boy's bow rep-
resents an instrument of sacrifice, like
the swords in the Morris dance, and
the skins worn by the six dancers are
also symbolic of the sacrifice. The
horn-dance, different from any other,
was done at the International Confer-
ence in London last summer as a rep-
resentative dance of England.
News Try outs
There will be a meeting of
all candidates for editorial posi-
tions on the College News in the
News Office on Monday, March
1, at 5.30 p. m. Please bring at
least one completed article.
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